DannyM8

National Library of Ireland on The Commons

06/Dec/2013 09:44:55

[http:[email protected]] Could be. (Although Crotty's a common enough name around Waterford and Kilkenny)

DannyM8

06/Dec/2013 09:45:33

In 1926, production of the Overland ended and the marque was replaced by the Whippet brand of small cars. In the economic depression of the 1930s a number of Willys automotive brands faltered. Stearns-Knight was liquidated in 1929. Whippet production ended in 1931, its models replaced by the Willys Six and Eight. Production of the Willys-Knight ended in 1933.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willys

National Library of Ireland on The Commons

06/Dec/2013 11:20:15

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] That's a rather lovely one, despite saying there may be "Yoemen" in the photo. Confused about the numbering though. In that early one, no. 10 is McDonald and no. ?? is Hodkinson. We definitely seem to have an 11 over the door of Crotty's by 1928...

beachcomberaustralia

06/Dec/2013 11:41:01

Forerunner of the Jeep - more Overland Willys in Australia, but no sign of a Whippet ...

National Library of Ireland on The Commons

06/Dec/2013 11:44:09

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] [http:[email protected]] Very impressed that we're all discussing Willys in a mature fashion with no sniggering whatsoever!

DannyM8

06/Dec/2013 11:47:35

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] [http://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] Especially notable as you mention a happy ending in the Pantomime photo!!!

philipgmayer

love that picture, so cinematic and like watching a scene from MGM old movie , its fun to see reality looks unreal

ono_donahue

21/Jun/2015 07:14:38

Awesome historic photo!

National Library of Ireland on The Commons

02/Oct/2015 15:35:45

Two years since we posted this 1920s Poole photo, we've yet again come across the Crotty brothers (Daniel and John) and their garage and coach-building business. This time we find their (original?) Dungarvan business in a Mason photo - taken perhaps at least a decade before the Poole shot:
www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/21257954994/